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+ | ====== Funkwhale ====== | ||
+ | ^ Main access | https:// | ||
+ | ^ Aliases | https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Description ===== | ||
+ | Initially created by Eliot Berriot as a personal project in 2015, Funkwhale evolved in a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralised, | ||
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+ | <WRAP center round info 95%> | ||
+ | Funkwhale [[https:// | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ===== Official documentation ===== | ||
+ | ^ Project | https:// | ||
+ | ^ Documentation | https:// | ||
+ | ^ Community | https:// | ||
+ | ^ Source Code | https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Nomagic documentation ===== | ||
+ | The [[https:// | ||
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+ | Here we will provide 2 different ways to **convert** your music on GNU/Linux, either from a **CD** (Compact Disc) or from a **FLAC** (Free Lossless Audio Codec, and open format) file to an **OGG Vorbis** file, which is our personal recommendation to store music on your Funkwhale account on Nomagic. | ||
+ | <WRAP center round info 95%> | ||
+ | OGG Vorbis is an open audio format for lossy audio compression. It has a better size/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== Recommended quality for compression ==== | ||
+ | We recommend to use a compression quality of **5**. A quality of 1 is extremely lossy, 5 is considered enough for //audio transparency//, | ||
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+ | ==== Converting from a CD ==== | ||
+ | On GNU/Linux, we recommend to use the **[[https:// | ||
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+ | From then you will have a set of FLAC files, that you can now convert to OGG Vorbis, because storage space on our instance is limited to 3 GB, and files in FLAC format would fill that space very quickly! | ||
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+ | ==== Transcoding to OGG Opus ==== | ||
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+ | <WRAP center round info 95%> | ||
+ | Though a **standardized, | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | It's basically [[https:// | ||
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+ | Doing some testing and comparison (on //So What//, first track of Miles Davis' //Kind of blue// album), I could barely identify the original Flac file from the Opus file, which is almost 10 times smaller! It's also 30% smaller than the ogg Vorbis version, and sounds better/ wider. | ||
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+ | Depending on how familiar you are with the terminal, you can either use '' | ||
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+ | * Using **SoundConverter** | ||
+ | - Install package **soundconverter** via your software manager | ||
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+ | - Open the software and select your preferred quality for the transcoding. We tested with ' | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
+ | //After opening the application, | ||
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+ | * Using command-line tool **opusenc** | ||
+ | The tool is very simple to use. Here below is one possible way to do mass conversion from FLAC to OGG Vorbis could be: | ||
+ | - Install package **opus-tools** using your package manager | ||
+ | - Tag all your FLAC files using **Music Brainz Picard** (the tagging may also be done after the conversion, on the opus files). | ||
+ | - Assuming all FLAC files are into sub-directories of path ''/ | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | test -d "/ | ||
+ | find / | ||
+ | find / | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== Transcoding to OGG Vorbis ==== | ||
+ | Depending on how familiar you are with the terminal, you can either use '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Using **SoundConverter** | ||
+ | - Install package **soundconverter** via your software manager | ||
+ | - Open the software and select your preferred quality for the transcoding. We tested with ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{ : | ||
+ | //After opening the application, | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Using command-line tool **oggenc** | ||
+ | The tool is very simple to use. Here below is one possible way to do mass conversion from FLAC to OGG Vorbis could be: | ||
+ | - Install package **vorbis-tools** using your package manager | ||
+ | - Tag all your FLAC files using **Music Brainz Picard** | ||
+ | - Assuming all FLAC files are into sub-directories of path ''/ | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | test -d "/ | ||
+ | find / | ||
+ | find / | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
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+ | ===== FAQ ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Can I just upload in FLAC? ==== | ||
+ | You **can**, but ideally you **shouldn' | ||
+ | <WRAP center round important 95%> | ||
+ | I deactivated transcoding to not hamper CPU, so the other side effect is the amount of data that will be downloaded. If you have a limited data plan, you will be ' | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== How to subscribe to an RSS podcast feed? ==== | ||
+ | Say you found the RSS feed for a podcast you want to follow and listen from the comfort of Funkwhale, for example: https:// | ||
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+ | Connect to https:// | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | Paste the RSS podcast feed URL you want to subscribe to and select **Subscribe**. | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | That's it! Your newly subscribed podcast will show instantly. | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | Select it to see the list and details of available episodes. | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||